Branch Rickey: You think God likes baseball, Herb?
Herb Pennock: What -? What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Branch Rickey: It means someday you're gonna meet God, and when he inquires as to why you didn't take the field against Robinson in Philadelphia, and you answer that it's because he was a Negro, it may not be a sufficient reply.
Lightning: Not only did you put Sally at risk, if he finds out he can hit you on the right he can kill you.
Henry 'Razor' Sharp: Then I go to my left. I need to do this, Light.
Lightning: Look, I know you're doing this for my sake. And I appreciate it, believe me. It's too dangerous. We gotta call off the fight.
Joe: The human qualities can be expressed in one word: hypocrisy.
Master Yang: The universe is blind to our pain and deaf to our sorrows. All things have their way.
Marshal Mallow: I'm mallow... Not Shallow.
Ivan Locke: It was once.
Katrina: And the difference between never and once is the whole world. The difference between never and once is the difference between good and bad.
Baz Hogan: These sharks of yours have no etiquette.
Fin Shepard: Etiquette? I thought you were Australian, not British.
Baz Hogan: Tasmanian, buddy.
Allen Ginsberg: Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever./And if you try to let them go... /They only circle back and return to you./They become part of who you are.
Lucien Carr: ...or they destroy you.
Gloria Gaines: Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler.
Amadeu: A decisive moment of life, when its direction changes forever, are not always marked by large and shown dramatics. In truth, the dramatic moments of a life determining experience are often unbelievable, low key. When it unfolds its revolutionary effects and insures that life is revealed in a brand new light, it does that silently. And in this wonderful silence resides its special nobility.
Jerry Wooters: Playing hot potato with a grenade isn't much of a strategy.
David: Congratulations, "darling."
Brett: I had it. I had pitched the perfect game, and I had to screw the whole thing up. My mother saw the whole thing on TV.
David: She must have been surprised to find out that you had a male lover.
Brett: No. She said she always suspected it. She told me we would make a lovely couple.
David: And your kids?
Brett: They think it's cool.
Ron Woodroof: Let me give y'all a little news flash. There ain't nothin' out there can kill fuckin' Ron Woodroof in 30 days.
Crunch Calhoun: If you've got no trust, then what do you got?
Nan: But then, 'Jesus' spelt backwards is 'Susej'.
Barbara Weston: It's the pills talking.
Violet Weston: Pills can't talk!
Rosa Dasque: Compared to the breadth of knowledge yet to be known... what does your life actually matter?
Little Girl: I hate Mommy. I want to burn her in her bed with matches. I want to burn her up, all up gone.
Stacker Pentecost: Today at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time. We have chosen to believe in each other. Today we face the monsters that are at our door, today we are cancelling the apocalypse!
Andrew Fassbach: Mother Nature is a serial killer. She wants to get caught, she leaves bread crumbs, she leaves clues... Mother nature knows how to disguise her weakness as strength.